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Table 1 Participants’ professional role and setting, and WAMs in use

From: The use of accelerometer-based wearable activity monitors in clinical settings: current practice, barriers, enablers, and future opportunities

Participant number

Profession

Setting/context: patient population

Device

Metrics of interest

1

Physiotherapist

Hospital (inpatient - day and home rehab): orthopaedic; stroke; traumatic injuries; post-surgical functional decline

Research (community): orthopaedic; stroke; traumatic injuries; post-surgical functional decline

Fitbit Zip®

Patients’ own if available

StepWatch™ (research)

Steps

2

Physiotherapist, researcher

Hospital (inpatient - day and home rehab): Orthopaedic, neurological, post-surgical functional decline, cancer

Fitbit Zip®

Steps

3

Physiotherapist (Director Physiotherapy and Exercise Physiology)

Hospital (inpatient - day and home rehab): Musculoskeletal/orthopaedic; aged and palliative care; post-surgical functional decline

Fitbit Zip®

Steps

4

Physiotherapist

Hospital (inpatient - rehab): Orthopaedic; stroke; post-surgical functional decline; functional decline medical

Fitbit Zip®

Patients’ own if available

Steps

5

Physiotherapist

Hospital (inpatient - home rehab): Orthopaedic; stroke; functional decline medical; cardiac rehab

Fitbit Zip®

Steps

6

Physiotherapist

Hospital (inpatient - rehab): Brain injuries

Fitbit Zip®

Patients’ own if available

Steps

7

Physiotherapist

Hospital (inpatient - rehab): Stroke

Fitbit Charge®

Steps

8

Exercise Physiologist

Community clinic: Stress management; ‘overtrainers’

Whoop Band and app

HR; HRV; Activity intensity minutes; Energy expenditure;

Sleep/recovery

9

Exercise Physiologist

Community clinic: Musculoskeletal injuries; metabolic

Whoop Band and app

Clients’ own if available

HR; HRV; Activity intensity minutes; Energy expenditure; Sleep/recovery

10

Exercise Physiologist

Community clinic: Workplace injuries (musculoskeletal injuries and trauma, amputations, fractures); neurological conditions; brain injuries; intellectual disabilities;

Patients’ own if available

Purchase through insurer - typically Fitbits or Garmin

Steps

Activity intensity minutes

Sleep

11

Exercise Physiologist

Community clinic, Hospital (inpatient rehab): Arthritis; diabetes; musculoskeletal injuries; cardiovascular; post-traumatic stress disorder

Fitbit (couldn’t remember model

Patients’ own if available

Steps

HR

Activity intensity minutes

12

Exercise Physiologist

Community clinic: Obesity (pre-bariatric surgery); metabolic; cardiovascular

Hospital (inpatient rehab): Stroke

Fitbit Charge®

Patients’ own devices

Steps

Activity minutes

13

Exercise Physiologist

Hospital (inpatient - home rehab): Stroke

Fitbit Zip®

Patients’ own if available

Steps

Activity intensity minutes

14

Researcher, Medical doctor (Anaesthetist)

Hospital (ICU): ICU survivors; significant cardiorespiratory and cardiovascular conditions

Smartphone app (iPhones)

Fitbit One®, Fitbit Flex®

Steps; GPS data

15

Researcher, Physiotherapist

Hospital (ICU): ICU survivors

ActivPAL™

GENEActiv

ActivPAL™:

Activity minutes

GENEActiv:

Steps

16

Researcher

Hospital (orthopaedics): Orthopaedic

GENEActiv

Activity intensity minutes; Energy expenditure

17

Researcher

Hospital (orthopaedics): Orthopaedic

GENEActiv

Activity intensity minutes

Energy expenditure

18

Medical Doctor (consultant geriatrician)

Hospital and hospital-at-home: Geriatric

ActivPAL™

Activity minutes; Sleep

Gait speed

  1. HR heart rate, HRV heart rate variability, GPS global positioning system, ICU intensive care unit